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Issue: Vol. 4571 No. 1: 25 Mar. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-03-25
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4571.1.1
Page range: 1–27
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A revision of the genus Calcigorgia (Cnidaria, Octocorallia, Acanthogorgiidae) with the description of three new species

Planetary Exploration Research Center (PERC), Chiba Institute of Technology (Chitech), Tsudanuma 2-17-1, Narashino, Chiba 275-0016, Japan.
Leen P. van Ofwegen, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Vondellaan 55, P.O. Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands.
Frederick M. Bayer, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., USA. (deceased).
Coelenterata Anthozoa taxonomy deep-water octocorals Japan Sea of Okhotsk Bering Sea new species subarctic Pacific

Abstract

Octocorals of the Acanthogorgiid genus Calcigorgia have been examined, from Japan, Sea of Okhotsk, and Bering Sea. The four known species are re-described and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images of sclerites presented. Three other species are described and depicted, bringing the total number of Calcigorgia species to seven. Calcigorgia simushiri, Dautova 2018 is synonymized with C. spiculifera Broch, 1935. A neotype for C. spiculifera has been designated.

 

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